Re: I believe Sandusky's window to appeal closes at end of business TOMORROW**
Yes, his PCRA appeal is due tomorrow.
------------ a timeline of filings, appeals, articles, etc.:
6/5/2012 Amendola made sealed motion to withdraw from case. It was later unsealed.
http://co.centre.pa.us/centreco/media/upload/SANDUSKY%2C%20GERALD%20060512%20Motion%20To%20Withdraw%20Before%20JS.pdf
6/11/2012 First day of trial
1/10/2013 Evidentiary Hearing scheduled
1/30/2013 Appeal Rejected, Commonwealth Court, Cleland
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2013/01/jerry_sandusky_appeal_is_denie.html
http://co.centre.pa.us/centreco/media/upload/SANDUSKY%20OPINION%20ADDRESSING%20THE%20DEFENDANTS%20POST%20SENTENCE%20MOTIONS.pdf
2/21/2013 Notice of Appeal
10/2/2013 Appeal Rejected, Superior Court
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/02/jerry-sandusky-appeal-denied_n_4031099.html
http://www.pacourts.us/assets/files/setting-3425/file-3090.pdf?cb=9a18e6
4/2/2014 Appeal Rejected, Supreme Court
http://www.statecollege.com/news/local-news/state-supreme-court-turns-down-jerry-sandusky-appeal,1458597/
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court slaps down an appeal from convicted child sex abuser Jerry Sandusky.
In a one sentence decision released Wednesday, the court says, "AND NOW, this 2nd day of April, 2014, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is DENIED."
Sandusky's attorney took the case to the supreme court last October after an earlier appeal to the superior court was also denied.
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/crime_courts/article_7eca580c-bac1-11e3-a4f6-0017a43b2370.html
State College Attorney Matt McClenahen said the next step after the appeal denial is to file a post-conviction relief act and argue ineffective council at trial.
McClenahen said when appellate rights are exhausted, PCRAs are typically filed. While most often ineffective council is argued, a person can also argue other issues, such as later discovered evidence or showing the commonwealth held evidence back, he said.
If Sandusky wins the post-conviction relief act, he will get a new trial, but McClenahen said they are rarely granted.
"It is very, very difficult to win a PCRA," he said.
McClenahen said the evidence at trial was so overwhelming, he's not sure any lawyer could have won.
"It's the kind of case that the only way a defense lawyer
could win was if the prosecutors threw the case," he said.
6/30/2014 New Sandusky Lawyer plans New Appeal
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/30/jerry-sandusky-new-lawyer_n_5545491.html
Al Lindsay, who leads the Pittsburgh area firm of Lindsay Law Firm, said he plans to file the appeal in the same court in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, where Sandusky, now 70, was sentenced in 2012 to 30 to 60 years in prison.
Lindsay would not go into detail about the grounds for a new appeal, although legal experts said that under the Pennsylvania Post-Conviction Relief Act, a claim of ineffective legal counsel is one of the few roads open to Sandusky. Nor would he say how he was retained.
"It's a long story," Lindsay said. "I got a call."
The deadline for filing the appeal is a year from April 2, the date on which the Pennsylvania Supreme Court shut down the former coach's original round of appeals. His lawyer at the time, Norris Gelman, had argued that the state's case rested on the credibility of the victims and since some of the complaints dated back as long as 16 years, that should have warranted an instruction to the jury on the failure to make a prompt report of sexual abuse.
8/5/2014 New Sandusky Lawyer plans to appeal
http://www.centredaily.com/2014/08/05/4293094/new-sandusky-lawyer-plans-to-appeal.html
Lindsay, an attorney from Butler, previously told the Centre Daily Times he is representing Sandusky in a Post-Conviction Relief Act appeal.
The act gives people who have been convicted of a crime - and who have exhausted other opportunities for appeal - another chance to have their cases heard.
Lindsay didn't respond when asked for comment Tuesday about the case.
It's not clear on what grounds Sandusky would make the PCRA appeal, which is limited to certain arguments.
In a previous appeal to the state Superior Court, Sandusky's then-lawyer, Norris Gelman, argued that trial defense attorneys were rushed and couldn't properly prepare and that Cleland was wrong on several matters during the proceedings.
The Superior Court shot down Sandusky's appeal, and the state Supreme Court later declined to hear the case.
Read more here: http://www.centredaily.com/2014/08/05/4293094/new-sandusky-lawyer-plans-to-appeal.html#storylink=cpy
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Amendola - Crazy like a fox?
12/10/2011 http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/12/jerry_sanduskys_lawyer_cuts_un.html
"I do have a strategy. There is a method to my madness," Amendola, 63, told The Associated Press. "This has been a well-thought-out strategy."
But legal experts wonder if Amendola, a small-town solo practitioner working in the glare of the national spotlight, is at loose ends - or crazy like a fox.
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9/5/2012 - plan to claim he's ineffective counsel
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/09/post_409.html
Calling himself ineffective?
By the end of the year, Amendola will have stepped aside from the Sandusky case.
His plan is to sacrifice his ego, take the stand and declare himself an ineffective attorney in an attempt to help his client get a new trial.
It's a tactic he has used before. A few years ago, after losing a rape case, he hired a Philadelphia attorney to handle the appeal, took the stand and called himself incompetent to help the 20-something college student who had been convicted.
